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About Me

"Us Featuring You" offers a distinctive blend of vocals, mandolin, and guitar. Becky and Steff's harmonies and instrumental riffs demonstrate their unique style, sound, and musical compatibility. Both currently reside in Albuquerque, NM, where they play at The Range Cafe, The Market Cafe, Flying Star, Exhale Bar & Grill, The Blue Dragon, Albuquerque Women's Music Festival, Corrales Music Festival, and Albuquerque Tri-Centennial events.
Becky is a singer-songwriter whose originals range from heartfelt testimony to powerful surges of soul and acoustic rock. Of a recent demo, TinderBox Music wrote: "Becky's voice rings clarity and perfection. The vocals are smooth and have a trancy-ness about them that almost make you forget where you are and what you are doing...The acoustic guitar resonates wonderfully and has great tone with good mids."
Prior to the formation of UFY, Steff played with the Placitas Mountain Band at venues including the Kimo Theater in downtown Albuquerque, and the Ohkay Casino opening for Merle Haggard. Steff's unique mandolin style steps outside of the "traditional box" with a flare more like that of an acoustic electric backdrop. Her lulling vocal accompaniment adds to the magical essence of the duo's harmony.
Us Featuring You delivers a powerful and entertaining set of originals and covers.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 15/01/2007
Band Members: Becky Alter - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin; Steff Chanat - backup vocals, mandolin.
Influences: Many wonderful musicians have influenced us and to varying degrees our music, including: Rickie Lee Jones, Freyda Epstein, Michelle Shocked, Bonnie Raitt, Ani DiFranco, Gillian Welch, Patty Griffin, Melissa Ferrick, Terri Allard, Judith Edelman, Tracy Chapman, The Indigo Girls, Jonatha Brooke, Tori Amos, KD Lang, Shawn Colvin, Cloud Valley, Beethoven, Mozart... Neil Young; Joan Armatrading; Pink Floyd; Old and In the Way; Fleetwood Mac; Nanci Griffith; Alison Krauss; Yerba Buena; John Prine; Grateful Dead; Sara Mclachlan; JS. & CPE. Bach; Led Zeppelin.
Sounds Like: us

Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

kathleen

another new one...  this one's by a good friend and wonderful songwriter, arden sisson, who graciously let us fall in love with the song and record it.  this is a first cut with studio bubbl...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:01:00 GMT

rendezvous

here's a new song for you...it's called rendezvous.  if you've gotten this far, you've already heard some of it.  it will be on the cd, the one still in the works...like the pic?  we do...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:04:00 GMT

exhale show

hey everyone,woohoo!  here's a shout out to exhale bar & grill and sarah.  the show last weekend was a blast.  we bathed in the sunshine and beautiful NM weather that graced the pat...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:33:00 GMT

recording and things

hey folks.  some of you know that we did some recording last winter.  now that moving and other time-consuming life stuff is settling down, we're getting back to it.  for those of you w...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:58:00 GMT

booking

Hello and welcome to "us featuring you".  If you're interested in booking us at your venue, or for an upcoming event, please send UFY a message.  Thanks!
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:42:00 GMT